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1.2 Patch although a good initiative but a complete mess.
I know Rift is trying to impress us over and over again with agressive patching and adding content and new features at a blazing speed. However, somewhere in between the quality control is going down and so far this is the buggiest and most broken patch released by TRION. yes it has some cool features but they are either limited, broken or of no use at all. For example LFG tool and wardrobe slots.
For players who are still on low populated servers LFG made no difference to them so the cries for server merger have started once again. The excitement for new tool went down pretty quick. Trion has only two options now either to make it cross server or merge all the low populated servers to make this tool viable. The tool also kicks you out of the queue if you change roles and have unspent talent points. Some fully geared T1 and T2 warriors are having trouble queuing since LFG scans all your equipment before queuing you. It places you into groups with people that are locked out from zones into random dungeon queus for the dungeons they are locked from. So i expect another hot patch for this
Wardrobe feature has no slots for weapons and choices for accessories and clothing is very limited. The added a clothier but the wardrobe is just underwhelming. Dying is still broken and PVP gear still can't be dyed. The crafting dailies and other added crafting quests can take up to 30 plats to finish. The new plaque system has made T2 armors less desirbale only within two months of release. So another grind begins to get new shiny armor.
The list of greviances and bugs is huge. But this is a summary of what is bothering players the most. Although, new patch has some cool nifty features like special crafting rifts and new 10 man raids but over all not impressed with the quality. i would rather have Trion test their patches more and slow down with aggressive patching. Quality over quantity.
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No comment from me so far regarding quality. EU servers were still not patched before me leaving for work. Also they seem to have released a hotfix already. I wonder if they slept at all these past few days.
http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?186629-RIFT-1.2-Hotfix-1-8-00am-PDT-5-11-11-NA-6-45am-BST-5-11-11
Ehh? so broken LFG tool is not a big deal? especially on low populated servers where it makes no difference at all because there are not enough people to queue and make this tool useful? and no changing roles should not kick you out and devs admitted it themselves and are working to fix this issue. Also 24 hours is more than sufficent time to test all the features and give feedback.
As far as buying your resources from AH, it is almost impossible to get any rare from AH because prices always have been insane. The new ptach raised the amount of rare you need and the drops are horrible which just added to frustation of crafters. But thanks for trying to damage control on whole issue. the truth is that this patch broke more things than it fixed and that also after extensive testing on test server.
I am getting sick of same kind of fanboy posts on official forums... it's not game it is you kind of bull****.
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24 hours to find them yes, they found them, they are reported. 24 hours to fix them though? Please try to understand what I am saying before commenting.
I've never had any trouble finding the rare resources. Maybe you just dont know where to look? Or even what you are doing in game?
This patch added more and fixed far more than it broke. People just need something to complain about, and I am sure glad I can block people who say stuff for no reason than to start arguements considering you can't back up 75% of your claims.
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As far as the rare resouces go they are effected by RNG so you ahve to be really lucky to get it through spoils of war event but that is not the issue since the amount you need has gone up, so have the prices but drops are still horrible.
I am downloading a patch as I type this that claims in the notes to address most of the bugs, less than 24 hours after 1.2 was released. Pretty impressive if you ask me. I do agree that the wardrobe system isn't as robust as say, LOTRO's, but at least it's there and that's a start. Also, cosmetic items are still yet to come, so hold your horses there, op.
*lol* jk. Anyways i completely agree
agreed.how the lfg addresses the low population server is beyond meit should have been a cross server lfd ..and the dev did promise a solution to this problem.guess they get to it in a few months when there is no one left on those servers .
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I don't know how much of a clone Rift is considered at this point, but it is obvious that they are putting 100 times more effort and soul into their game than the "original".
Can't say I've tried the LFG tool or the Wardrobe slots, but I can say that the game is much buggier today than it was a few days ago. I don't think I've ever seen a substantial patch that didn't create at least a few problems. Give it a few days, and it'll prolly be sorted.
I really hope that *insert game name here* will be the first game to ever live up to all of its pre-release promises, maintain a manageable hype level and have a clean release. Just don't expect me to hold my breath.
I wish for once people quit bein such pessimistic jerks and pick a game and stick with everyone just a buncha critics anymore try being a gamer and a player for a change sheesh or quit playing
As an ex Vanguard player I couldn't care a less if there's a few bugs in the patch. It will get sorted, it's no biggie. But at least they are patching, improving and adding content. Not sure why some customers are foaming at the mouth when the odd bug rears it's head, anyone would think the dev's have come round and pee'd in your popcorn. Relax a little, this whole MMORPG stuff is supposed to be about entertainment. Good work Trion. Just gets better.
Good riddance give them a day or two for a hotfix! It's not the end of the world.
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Haven't noticed any bugs as of yet, been leveling my cleric who is lvl43 at the moment doing quests. One thing I would say, is the LFD tool is pretty worthless at my level, been in a queue for 90 minutes and not had one group pop up, on top of that, i can only queue for 1 dungeon - Lantern Hook - as it won't allow me to queue for a lower level dungeons and same for higher level dungeons... However at max level, a healer of mine in my guild gets into the experts in about 15 seconds *shrugs*
So far so good besides a few minor bugs. I LOVE the wardobe so far. That was always my favorite feature of Lotro. Being able to dress up as a rogue with simple rough armor makes me feel much less hokey. The quests are working out well for me. Class wise, nothing huge to complain about. Although the buffs to my Inquisitor are making me insanely powerful in pvp and pve. All in all really enjoying Rift.
I would actually be against cross server LFG. I much prefer server merges if needed. Cross server means I start losing the sense of community I get from my own server. It makes it harder to weed out the bad players. LFG is there to help you without needing to spam chat. It doesn't solve all your problems. Maybe that is just my mentality as an older gamer.
I was happy with the patch.. up until i noticed that terrain distance has been messed up beyond beleive.. Several other in my guild were experienceing the same thing, i'am hopeing maybe it was just server lag from the ton of people logging into check out 1.2 (yes i actually had to wait in ques last night, first time since 2 weekends ago.) Other then that i qued up with the LFG tool for several dungeons last night without a problem, it sucks that the dungeons are lvl locked though as i was waiting for the LFG tool till i went back and explored a lot of the dungeons i had missed.. I like the wardrope function, i've already made my dwarve look sweet.. But yeah, it'd be nice if they had weapon/shield slots and now that you mention it i don't see why they don't lol..
I wasn't expecting TOO much with this update.. I mean, it's not like it was an expansion, just a simple patch.. I just hope that the "recover" i did on my Rift last night will fix the terrain problem.
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well trion refuses to acknowledge there is a population issue despite it is clear to see.so they said at some point a server transfer which is fair enough i suppose but better sooner then later.
i don;t think a cross server lfg is that bad an idea.way T1 and T2 experts are nowadays i think in a few weeks most will be done with them and facing raids or pvp primarily anyhow.
i have a 50 on one of the so called medium servers that pretty much a ghostland and logged in for 2 hrs to craft and whatever i could do solo and i went in the lfg for anything really and in the 2 hrs nothing popped at all.
so the lfg thing actually is pretty much useless if you are on one of those servers.
trion needs to acknowledge the truth there are way too many servers around.
This.
Cross server is WoW.. and you know how much fun pug heroics were there. People not caring what they thought of each other and just trash talking like 12 year olds, people tanking/dps/healing half ass cause they can, leaving mid game etc. Do I even need to say Ninja?
Why? Cause you'll never remember them.
Keeping it on the same server, makes you to some degree responsible for your actions. Sure you can do the above, but it will catch up with you. This is an mmo and it's supposed to be about communitiy.
If you don't think so, go back to WoW or even get out of mmo's all together and play something single player.
I don't play Rift currently since my gaming rig took a poo but from the sound of it Trion is doing a great job keeping after things aggressively. Bravo. I hope more dev teams look at their example for customer support. The fact that people are complaining that things aren't perfect is a tribute to the kind of quality Trion demonstrates over and over. This is a good example for the MMORPG world, whether or not they change the game for the better or not, imho.
LFG Tool is not the problem. Server population isn't really that big of a problem either.
The problem is that all the content has been cleared and majority of players are at level 50. I'm on a high population server and in every possible chat channel except the level 50 chat, yet i can go for 3-4 hours without seeing a single comment worldwide in chat. When I asked if there is any chat channel that's actually active, i was told that it's the level 50 chat.
This precisely is the problem. The entire game population is maxed out at 2 months into the game. The problem isn't that the LFG tool isn't bringing people together. The problem is that people aren't doing the level 1-49 dungeons. Most are content to solo and rift and maybe hit a dungeon once on the way up. If leveling was slower and dungeoning had the best XP gain, you'd have a lot more people in the dungeons. LFG tool, whether single or cross server is just a bandaid solution when the true problem is that people don't want to do the content.
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Makes sense..
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